Confirmed Speakers
Simon R. Cherry, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, University of California
"Total-body metabolic imaging with PET"
Zaver M. Bhujwalla, PhD
Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Radiology; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Molecular imaging and theranostics of cancer”
Robin A. de Graaf, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University
“Deuterium metabolic imaging – past, present and future”
Sergei A. Vinogradov, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
"Oxygen imaging in radiation therapy: deciphering the mechanism of the FLASH effect"
Wei Chen, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
"Advancing deuterium (2H) MRSI technology for quantitative imaging and study of human brain glucose metabolism and metabolic reprogramming under healthy and diseased state"
Ravinder Reddy, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Chemical exchange weighted MRI: Technical developments and biomedical applications”
Maria Angela Franceschini, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
“Assessing cerebrovascular insufficiency and neural risk with diffuse optical methods”
David A. Boas, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
“Imaging cerebral blood flow in humans during brain activation tasks using laser speckle contrast imaging”
Wesley Baker, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
“Diffuse optical monitoring of cerebral oxygen metabolism in pediatric hydrocephalus”
Ting Li, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering Institute, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
“Monitoring brain and muscle physiology by NIRS in vivo: brain performance enhancement at high altitude and therapeutic effects of cupping therapy”
Kevin McCully, PhD
Professor of Kinesiology, University of Georgia
"Assessing mitochondria in disease and chronic injury using NIRS"
Qiuhong He, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Purdue University
“Clinical pi-MRSI techniques to detect prognostic markers of immunotherapy in cancer patients”
Jae Mo Park, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
“Imaging oxidative phosphorylation and gluconeogenesis with hyperpolarized 13C probes: Clinical applications and recent advances”
Terence P. Gade, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Recent development and application of hyperpolarized 13C metabolic imaging methods for oncology and cardiovascular diseases”
Howard Halpern, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago
“Biologic confirmation of the effectiveness of spin-lattice relaxation based electron paramagnetic resonance location of tumor hypoxia in mammalian tumors for local radiation boosts”
Charles Manning, PhD
Professor of Cancer Systems Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
“New radionuclide diagnostics and therapeutics for oncology”
Dave A. Mankoff, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair for Radiology Research, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Glutamine metabolism in breast cancer: Insights and a few surprises provided by molecular imaging”
E. James Delikatny, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Translating optical molecular imaging for fluorescence guided surgery of non-small cell lung cancer”
Brian Pogue, PhD
Professor & Chair, Dept of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Quantifying tissue metabolism & response to acute therapies with radiation beams”
Marni J. Falk, MD
Professor and Executive Director, Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
“Developing novel metabolic imaging methodologies to improve primary mitochondrial disease mechanistic understanding in zebrafish and disease severity in patients”
Douglas Wallace, PhD
Professor and Director of Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
“A mitochondrial etiology of neuropsychiatric and metabolic diseases”
Irene Georgakoudi, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
“Label-free, two-photon imaging of metabolic and mitochondrial function in living tissues”
He N. Xu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
"Optical redox imaging of postmortem human brain tissue for deep pathological characterization of neurodegenerative tauopathies"
Kavindra Nath, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Metabolic modulation towards improved outcome in cancer therapy”
Kayvan R. Keshari, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
“Probing in vivo redox biochemistry using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance”
Robert Mach, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Measuring the role of reactive oxygen species as a key mediator of neurodegeneration in vivo with PET.”
Warren S. Warren, PhD
Professor of Chemistry, Duke University
“Making hyperpolarization in magnetic resonance faster, simpler, cheaper, and more robust”
Fernando Arias-Mendoza, MD, PhD
Senior Principal Scientist, Advanced Imaging Research, Inc. and Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“In vivo measurement of regional NAD indices in human brain by phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging at 1.5 Tesla”
Mamadou Diop, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Biophysics, Western University, Canada
“Hyperspectral near-infrared spectroscopy for monitoring cerebral blood oxygenation and metabolism”
Chao Zhou, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis
“Dynamic contrast optical coherence tomography imaging of 3D organoids”
Yihui Shen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
“Imaging cellular metabolism with stimulated Raman scattering”
Lingyan Shi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego
“Metabolic Nanoscopy for studying Aging and Diseases”
David R. Busch, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Monitoring of hemodynamics and tissue metabolism in critically ill children by NIRS imaging”
Harold Swartz, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Radiation Oncology), Dartmouth College
“How to effectively use measurements of oxygen in tissue for preclinical and clinical studies using EPR”.